Macronomic instability: IMF has warned on countries using cryptocurrencies as legal tender, just over a month before El Salvador is set to become the first nation in the world to allow bitcoin to pay for everything from haircuts to taxes. ft.com/content/c36c45… https://t.co/uM3CaYiGRU
GOP sense inflation provides an opening — a chance to label the Biden admin as reckless big spenders and recovery a short-term sugar-high. Strategists say GOP intend to make the jump in living costs a central message. Plays well with small business base. ft.com/content/ef204b… https://t.co/yaIW0iMU2L
Do you believe in China’s decarbonization commitment? The markets do. Green ETFs are top performers in China in H1 2021. ft.com/content/80ffb1… https://t.co/TlGp8CPXv1
"When my mother was born, there were fewer than 3bn people in world. When I was born, there were almost 5bn, and when I gave birth to my daughter, there were 7.7bn. She may see beginning of new era in which # of people on planet declines.” @sarahoconnor_ ft.com/content/f57f3c… https://t.co/gXW7s2JB8B
Thermal runaway: “we don’t have a definitive answer of what is the best way to deal with a lithium battery fire. batteries are essential to decarbonisation but their penetration into society has far outstripped our actual knowledge of the risks" ft.com/content/8c9c3d… https://t.co/LvYZySJ3sO
"n 2011, President Obama attempted to accelerate the completion of seven major new transmission lines. Only two were finished. Since 2009, China has built more than 18,000 miles of ultrahigh-voltage transmission lines. The U.S. has built zero.” @yayitsrob theatlantic.com/science/archiv… https://t.co/L7CRDBnL7b
Big issue for politics of thinking about energy transition in US is whether WWII should serve as inspiration. 40s commonly invoked. But what WWII actually drove was great acceleration. Can this be a good model? Is energy=energy, state=state, transition=transition? H/t @njtmulder twitter.com/njtmulder/stat…
A fire in Geelong Australia at one of largest Tesla battery installations in world has drawn fresh attention to the risks of lithium batteries in grid storage. There have been a total of 38 large lithium-ion battery fires since 2018, V hard to put out. ft.com/content/8c9c3d… https://t.co/oyjOr4qrKN
Over and out for now. THANK YOU for a great exchange. twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…
Globalization hasnt stopped and isnt receding, but it is changing gear. Interesting this from @ErikvanderMarel ecipe.org/publications/g… https://t.co/WIwVXVlJWG
@Alan_Allport @MatrixGames_SPA @ForeignPolicy @Airminded As Jim Whitman points out in Verdict of Battle it is integral to the way a certain set of conventions framed battle in any case. hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is…
@Alan_Allport @MatrixGames_SPA @ForeignPolicy @Airminded And there is also the association running from battle to games of chance, the iron dice, the chain of association so brilliantly analyzed by Jim Whitman in the Verdict of Battle. hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is…
@ADragoons If logistics includes food, the link is direct. Occupy or besiege Leningrad? If an encirclement succeeds and you take 100,000s of POW do you need to provide logistical system to feed them or detach troops to guard them? How does pillage of countryside drive partisan activity?
@Alan_Allport @MatrixGames_SPA @ForeignPolicy @Airminded AMAZING thank you.
Thanks for clarifying. Would love to know more. Quite difficult to talk about Wehrmacht planning even at operational level without factoring in food issue. My question is as much about the review and the editorial process @ForeignPolicy as the game itself. twitter.com/stjohnbaptiste…
@30RoE @MatrixGames_SPA @ForeignPolicy I have no problem owning bias when it comes to WWII. Feel free to read or not, as you choose. UP to you. But please spare me the gratuitous and unpleasant ad hominem. Have a good day!
@ntrickett16 Point taken, but fact that this IS now US strategy is, how shall we call it …?
@Alan_Allport @MatrixGames_SPA @ForeignPolicy HI Alan anything good to read on the thinking and debates about this? It would seem to be a total war problem compounded by a “totalitarian regime” problem compounded by a racial war problem.
@RupertAugust @MatrixGames_SPA @ForeignPolicy I actually completely agree that Stalinist coercion MUST be an integral part of any thinking about Soviet war economy. Of course it must. Review was keyed to German side, so I responded to that. But your point is fair and well taken.
"One thing that the current calls for tax reform tells me is that gaining the ongoing “trust of the people” in order to maintain a good tax system may be more challenging than devising it.” James Otto. ft.com/content/e8c16a… https://t.co/bPZIMk5WA0
RT @Alan_Allport: @adam_tooze @MatrixGames_SPA @ForeignPolicy Game designers have tied themselves in knots over this issue for decades. Dis…
Game designer @MatrixGames_SPA makes major simulation of Ostfront. Serious analyst reviews in @ForeignPolicy Up-to-date about logistics. Mentions Judeo-bolshevism as a foe, Bartov. But NO mention of Holocaust, Hunger Plan, starving POW? How possible? foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/04/war… https://t.co/RkNGrimPxF
Ashraf Ghani, embattled Pres of Afghanistan, has a 1980s cultural anthropology degree from Columbia. Former lead anthropologist at @WorldBank Ted talker! worldleaders.columbia.edu/directory/dr-m… What are results on the ground? On economic track record see Chartbook #29 adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/U0ez2ltZVV
Chemparks – 35 dedicated chemical industry parks are dotted around Germany. Most of them grew up in the 1990s to meet increasingly tough environmental regulation. Central operators enable individual firms to achieve compliance. sueddeutsche.de/panorama/lever… https://t.co/y68iCLqVt8
Repression of freedom of expression in HK, meanwhile Carrie Lam: “If you look at stock market, property market, start-ups, even arts and culture, they are all booming . . . because of the restoration of order and stability,” Why they call it White Terror! ft.com/content/d9ca86… https://t.co/BO2eBfrobJ
Seif el-Qaddafi, he of the LSE, is back … truly spooky article this. nytimes.com/2021/07/30/mag… https://t.co/q9HLAKrkuO
One of the true ironies of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan is the space it opens for China. theguardian.com/world/2021/jul… On the background to America’s frustration in Afghanistan, check out Chartbook #29. Sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/LU1hjCr1hl
And for the trifecta on China with @NewStatesman add this really good conversation with @emilyctamkin @JeremyCliffe newstatesman.com/world/2021/07/… twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…
I know enough to know, I need someone to explain this to me. Is this a big deal? @yayitsrob @JasonBordoff ? twitter.com/jburwen/status…
Top Admiral: Defense Firms Are Lobbying Against the Weapons the US Navy Needs @MarcusReports is to say the least revealing! defenseone.com/policy/2021/08… https://t.co/krpeqaHNxe
RT @Iain_MacGregor1: #BerlinWall60 The planning of Operation 'Rose' to seal off a city of 3.3 million people was a herculean task: 192 stre…
One of the true ironies of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan is the space it opens for China. theguardian.com/world/2021/jul… On the background to America’s frustration in Afghanistan, check out Chartbook #29. Sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/SWj2MTJcXb
RT @emckean: "God grant me the serenity to accept the tabs I cannot close, courage to close the tabs I can, and the wisdom to know the diff…
Which one might invert for the 21st century …. twitter.com/BrankoMilan/st…
RT @DilettanteryPod: Marshall Mcluhan's copy of Finnegan's Wake, pure craziness https://t.co/Ze2Dg4m2mx
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